Today is Microsoft's October 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 172 flaws, including six zero-day vulnerabilities. Get patching! [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from the leader of Prince Group, a criminal organization that stole billions of dollars from victims in the United States through cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as romance baiting or pig butchering. [...]

Oracle has silently fixed an Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability (CVE-2025-61884) that was actively exploited to breach servers, with a proof-of-concept exploit publicly leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group. [...]

FuzzingLabs has accused the YCombinator-backed startup, Gecko Security, of replicating its vulnerability disclosures. Gecko allegedly filed for 2 CVEs based on FuzzingLabs' reports without crediting them. Gecko denies any wrongdoing, calling the allegations a misunderstanding over disclosure process. [...]

AI assistants are no longer just helping — they're acting. Autonomous agents now open tickets, fix incidents, and make decisions faster than humans can monitor. As "Shadow AI" spreads, learn from Token Security why orgs must govern these agents like powerful new identities before oversight disappears. [...]

Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections. [...]

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell. [...]

Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products, which allows a local attacker to access system files without authentication. [...]

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Apple is announcing a major expansion and redesign of its bug bounty program, doubling maximum payouts, adding new research categories, and introducing a more transparent reward structure. [...]

From lab work to leadership — VMware certification can transform your IT career. Learn from VMware User Group (VMUG) how the VMUG Advantage can help you build real skills, gain confidence, and join a global IT community. [...]

The FBI has seized last night all domains for the BreachForums hacking forum operated by the ShinyHunters group mostly as a portal for leaking corporate data stolen in attacks from ransomware and extortion gangs. [...]

A new Android spyware called ClayRat is luring potential victims by posing as popular apps and services like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube. [...]

A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in "pirate payroll" attacks since March 2025. [...]

Threat actors have started to use the Velociraptor digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool in attacks that deploy LockBit and Babuk ransomware. [...]

A new large-scale botnet called RondoDox is targeting 56 vulnerabilities in more than 30 distinct devices, including flaws first disclosed during Pwn2Own hacking competitions. [...]

SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month. [...]

Researchers map a campaign that escalated from a Python infostealer to a full PureRAT backdoor — loaders, evasions, and TLS-pinned C2. Join Huntress Labs' Tradecraft Tuesday for deep technical walkthroughs and live IOC guidance on the latest cybersecurity topics. [...]

A pro-Russian hacktivist group called TwoNet pivoted in less than a year from launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to targeting critical infrastructure. [...]

Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. [...]

A new variant of the FileFix social engineering attack uses cache smuggling to secretly download a malicious ZIP archive onto a victim's system and bypassing security software. [...]

The Qilin ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the attack at Japanese beer maker Asahi, adding the company to its extortion page on the dark web yesterday. [...]

The 'Crimson Collective' threat group has been targeting AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud environments for the past weeks, to steal data and extort companies. [...]

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Service Finder WordPress theme that allows them to bypass authentication and log in as administrators. [...]

The UK Metropolitan Police has arrested two suspects following an investigation into the doxing of children online after a ransomware attack on a chain of London-based nurseries. [...]